I thought almost the same thing as you,
But for music I imagine they cold develop a intermediary process, not aiming to a such rigid strong like steel kind of wood, but targeting to be able to process common wood to turn it similar to the best woods for music.
For example, here on Brazil our spruce it's not good like the spruce from Europe's cold florests, since the veins of the wood do not grown so close when the tree it's in tropical or subtropical regions. And the actual spruce in europeen florest are not so great as europeen florest spruce that growned during ice age.
I bet China's piano factories will research if it's possible to use this technology somehow to make the chinese spruce closer in quality to europeen spruce.
And about ecologic terms, not music, If this technology could be used to chemically treat and compress bamboo fibers making very good wood, in a affordable costs, it would save millions of trees. Bamboo produces more kg of wood per square meter of soil than most tree camps, and grows very much faster.
Bamboo it's very strong, even with the usual production methods of gluing bamboo pieces and pressing. Who have a bamboo cutting board knows how resistant it is.
jcfelice88keys wrote:In the past, piano manufacturers have researched soundboards made of aluminum, masonite, polycarbonate (plastic), and other woods besides spruce. In the end, spruce continues to be the material of choice in the world's manufacture of pianos, probably for its combination of flexibility & compliance along with stiffness and structural rigidity. I think it's fine that other materials are investigated for use in piano soundboards; may the best material win.
Of course anything is possible, but I don't foresee a paradigm shift away from the current type of natural wood used in quality piano soundboards. Until then, spruce shall rein for the foreseeable future.
Cheers,
Joe
Impressive challenge.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02...-building/
LTECpiano wrote:Maybe this is the type of wood that is being planned for the 70 story wooden building in Japan ;p)
Lanny
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